Posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:08 AM PST by MtnClimber
Where did the American press corps leave its backbone?
NPR, The New York Times, and other leftist propaganda organs parading as reliable news publications wrapped up 2023 by jeering House Republicans for passing only twenty-seven bills that became laws. Hyperventilating like out-of-shape Chris Christie clones perpetually catching their breath, the Fourth Estate’s most prestigious windbags could not hide their priggish condescension: Republican legislators simply cannot legislate, they huffed in unison.
I know the “Yes, Daddy, govern me harder!” crowd gets goosebumps every time the ignoramuses and perverts in D.C. create a new rule that comes with the threat of a good spanking, but it still amazes me how desperately today’s “journalists” desire for the government to tell them what they can and cannot do.
The United States of America has been around for two and a half centuries. During that time, tens of thousands of federal laws, rules, regulations, and executive orders have been created to squash and squeeze Americans’ natural liberties into smaller and smaller sanctioned containers suitable for TSA inspection. It would be interesting to know just how many more decades of legislating and how many thousands of additional recorded laws it would take before the masochists at The New York Times finally feel as if they have been sufficiently governed!
Mr. Edward Holman commented recently that the creepy JournoList community of leftist “reporters” who collaborated to push narratives and news coverage favorable to Barack Obama during his rise to power crippled the profession permanently: “A free press cannot secretly conspire to rig elections by coordinating to destroy candidates, movements (TEA Party, MAGA, etc) they dislike with false accusations by anonymous sources.” I heartily agree. The propaganda “journalism” legitimized by the JournoList cabal was as loud of a death knell for objective reporting...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They are Pravda on the Potomac.
Yes. Citizen journalists are the most credible if you want truth.
how desperately today’s “journalists” desire for the government to tell them what they can and cannot do.
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Them?
No!
People with the marxist mentality want oppression imposed on everyone. What is implicit and not expressed in that is that the privilege/power class will typically be exempt from it’s effects.
The "journalists" do *not* expect the government to tell them what to do. They expect to tell the government what to tell others to do. They expect to be exempt from what the government tells others, and they are mostly correct.
The real power in the USA has been the Media, and those who direct those in the Media.
The MSM creates and drives public opinion...which is designed to invalidate voters’ choices.
The individuals, groups and corporations that pay for media compliance are passing off their own views and agendas as 'public opinion'. It's like the man said, 'Follow the money'
Sad but true a human trait I have it too Ego.
Clip of the day:
Where did the American press corps leave its backbone? Probably on Jeffrey Epstein’s pedo-island or some other place where integrity and self-respect are shortsightedly exchanged for fake titles, hollow accolades, uptown apartments, and petty vice. Once you descend to that level of invertebracy where you slither along the ground like a supercilious slug, you find yourself writing articles for The New York Times demanding that Congress work harder to come up with new laws and punishments suitable for a population of citizen slaves. “Reporters” are now so deferential to bureaucrats in positions of authority that they prostrate themselves before those most deserving of scrutiny. As obsequious servants to a “ruling class” that sees them as expendable, today’s “journalists” empower the powerful and silence the powerless. And when a “reporter” no longer serves those powerful interests, the Establishment’s exterminators need only decide whether to shrivel the offending slug with salt or squish it into gooey obsolescence.
Defund NPR.
Today’s Urinalists Seek Power, Not Truth
fixed it.
Ask any journalism major why they chose it. “To make a difference.” “To change the world.”
With that as an objective, truth becomes an obstacle.
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